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Sri Lankan economy is having a large services sector (60%) but with a small industry sector (26 %). Economic growth theory states that services sector is developed to cater to the industry. Are...
17 February 2020 3,639 7 View
Majority of policies, rules and regulations are imposed for a whole economy without paying attentions to different residential sectors. As a result predicted growth may not be attainable. Even...
26 December 2019 9,234 3 View
Sri Lanka is a develping country since its independence in 1948. It had all the factors of production in place and had been the first South Asian country to adopt open market economic policies....
09 December 2019 6,699 11 View
Researchers define institutional context differently. People build institutions to reduce transaction cost or cost of production. Are there instances where institutions increase transaction costs?
28 October 2017 3,537 3 View
Primodium initiation takes place in the trunk of the coconut palm and it takes some time to appear on the crown. Once it appears on the palm usually it takes another twelve months to mature, Water...
07 October 2017 6,704 2 View
Entrepreneurship is opportunity based concept? However, export entrepreneurship could be different from the general entrepreneurship since it is out of the context. Upananda Sri Lanka
30 May 2017 5,448 6 View
Majority of small business and entrepreneurship literature employs random sampling to improve the external validity. However each business entity is embedded in a different context and all...
10 June 2016 2,760 5 View
Financial inclusion had attracted attention of policy makers and researcher due to its contribution to economic growth. Basically making um-bankables, bankable is the core of financial...
08 February 2015 3,383 8 View
It is observed that rural businesses are less innovative than those of urban. Apart from variation in location, how can we distinguish variation of rural and urban entrepreneurship?
30 November 2014 9,642 14 View
Generally, using gold as a collateral to get advances is termed pawning. Pawning is become popular practice of getting funds quickly and redeem pawned article when funds are available. Banks also...
28 November 2014 8,854 1 View
Few customers develop innovations from some products which were not originally thought of. If there is a system to track down those inventions/innovations.
19 September 2014 8,601 12 View
According to entrepreneurship literature, there are two modes of opportunity identification: opportunity discovery (Shane, 2003); Opportunity creation (Austrian economics). Literature on...
11 September 2014 4,306 10 View
North's theory of institutions (1990, 1991) has been used by many researchers and World Bank to advocate developing countries on developing economies through improved entrepreneurial activities. ...
09 July 2014 8,636 9 View
Opportunity discovery and opportunity creations are theorized under certain assumptions (Alvarez, 2005). However, the majority of researchers takes either of these assumptions as granted.
18 June 2014 8,894 3 View
Institutional economics is gaining attention from researchers to explain why some economies attain higher economic growth while others not. Reasons for not attaining economic growth have been...
16 May 2014 5,450 11 View
Currently a case study method is using research in many fields. This method employs to examine very few cases in-depth. The question of reliability comes when the situation and the context change...
04 April 2014 1,107 5 View
The Consumer Price Index has been the major index which reflects inflation. Some economies attempt to either change the composition of the baskets of goods which measure the consumer price index,...
03 April 2014 6,562 3 View
When the small business population of a country is considered, one can observe that very few businesses grow while the majority remain in the same business for a lifetime. Why does this happen?...
31 March 2014 9,834 10 View
Banks are playing a dominant role in job creation, economic growth, and managing financial and economic stability of a country. Very often researchers use basic theories on economics (i.e., supply...
26 March 2014 7,719 24 View
Although the case study research method has distinct advantages over statistical/quantitative methods, it is inherently weak in proving external validity. This method is important when...
07 March 2014 551 18 View
Generally, the majority of small businesses are not growing. Very often survive or running below the opportunity cost of labor of the owner manager. However some small businesses are growing...
08 February 2014 3,897 41 View
Often researchers in entrepreneurship attempt to define small businesses in terms of behavior of owner-manager/entrepreneur, entrepreneurial orientation or influence/impact on the market....
17 January 2014 2,349 3 View
Majority of entrepreneurship literature refers to big businesses while attempting to apply the same concept to small businesses. The concept developed to explain big businesses that could disturb...
17 January 2014 6,865 6 View
Everyone talks,writes, and researches entrepreneurship. However small businesses, in developing countries survive for years without substantial growth. Can these businesses termed as...
07 January 2014 5,278 7 View
Entrepreneurship and small businesses are intrinsically linked. It is essential to isolate entrepreneurship if we need to develop the concept of entrepreneurship without referring to state of the...
03 January 2014 5,209 2 View
